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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Locale stuff: call for conclusion.
To: kaleb@x.org (Kaleb S. KEITHLEY)
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 11:45:45 -0700 (MST)
Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199510191244.IAA01918@exalt.x.org> from "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" at Oct 19, 95 08:44:23 am
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> > Summary: only the upper, lower, alpha and space attributes must be limited.
> > 
> > Would this actually help?  Anything that deals with words may be confused
> > by national alpha and space characters not satisfying isalpha() and
> > isspace().
> > 
> 
> An application that cares will call setlocale() to obtain a locale
> specific table with the correct information. An application like
> ls will be able to print more than what it prints now, which is not
> without drawbacks but I argue that more even with its drawbacks is 
> more useful than nothing at all.

What Kaleb said, word for word.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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